AI Twitter bot captures the essence of Trump

@DeepDrumpf is cooking up tweets that look suspiciously like Trump’s own words – here’s how. A new AI Twitterbot has actually found a way to out-Trump the Donald himself. According to a report from Discovery News, the bot, named @DeepDrumpf, has managed to harness the simplicity and strength of Trump’s words and crank out tweets that sound as if Trump typed them himself. How was this possible, you may ask yourself? The bot was built by MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab postdoctoral student Bradley Hayes. Hayes expanded on an algorithm that enables computers to learn by picking out patterns and reorganizing information in a manner similar to the human brain. The algorithm was fed words taken from actual transcripts of Trump’s debates and victory speeches in states where…